On 03/17/2018 02:31 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: > I don't know about compilers specifically, but the big distributors in > Europe charged some hefty margins on their imports. So pricing in US was > often much lower than here...
It may not be distributor greed: I was one of the founders of a WordPerfect distributor in Turkey in around 1991. When retail price was around $500, we were paying around $400 to WordPerfect when US consumers were getting it for something like $120 at retail shops. (I cannot be sure about the amounts after all those years.)
I don't know whether it was the US government rules or WordPerfect rules but they simply could not sell us anywhere near what US consumers were paying. $500 in Turkey is still an impossibly high price.
We survived for a while selling to large companies. Ali
